SI408: Has Trend Following Changed Forever? ft. Alan Dunne

SI408: Has Trend Following Changed Forever? ft. Alan Dunne

Markets continue to evolve, and so do the strategies designed to navigate them. Alan Dunne joins Niels Kaastrup-Larsen to explore why changes in market structure may have permanently altered short term trend following, and what that means for systematic investors. They discuss a fascinating new research paper on market microstructure, the changing role of liquidity, the rise of high frequency trading and why faster no longer necessarily means better. Along the way they examine the Federal Reserve's evolving communication strategy, the outlook for commodities, and why regime change continues to create both risks and opportunities for trend followers.

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Episode TimeStamps:

00:00 - Summer reading, Jeremy Grantham and lessons from early quantitative investing

05:22 - Shrinking retail products, smaller futures contracts and the rise of retail trading

12:18 - First half performance review for CTAs and trend followers

15:36 - Commodity markets, Middle East tensions and the AI driven demand story

20:09 - Kevin Warsh, Fed communication and a new era for monetary policy

30:34 - Why regime change strengthens the case for trend following

38:34 - The research behind the decline of short term trend following

46:44 - Tick size, liquidity and what changed in market microstructure

49:43 - Alternative explanations for why fast trend has struggled

55:35 - Execution, market participants and the future of systematic trading

01:00:45 - Final thoughts on the next evolution of trend following

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